Country Total Support Estimate (TSE) and derived indicators in Table 1 cover all agricultural
production, i.e. all agricultural commodities produced in the country.
Definitions of basic data sets refer to the specific name of the programmes.
For the Producer Support Estimates (PSE) and Consumer Support Estimates (CSE),
the description of policy measures indicates the commodities covered by the
measures, as well as the method of allocation of the corresponding transfers
among commodities. "MPS
commodities", which vary across countries, are those for which market
price support is explicitly calculated in Table 2.

Market Price Support (MPS) and Consumer
Support Estimates (CSE) by commodity in Table
2 are only calculated for commodities produced in the country within a
common set of commodities (wheat, maize, barley, oats, rice, sorghum, soybeans,
sunflower, rapeseed, sugar, milk, beef and veal, pigmeat,
poultrymeat, sheepmeat,
wool and eggs); provided that the value of production of that commodity exceeds
1 per cent of the total value of production in the country concerned. Market
Price Support (MPS is also calculated for beans (Frijol), tomatoes and coffee
(café verde) in order to reduce the error in
extrapolating MPS to all agricultural commodities. Definitions are provided
only for basic data sets from which all the other data sets in this table are
derived, following the formula indicated in each commodity table. Specific
sources are indicated in square brackets.

Producer Support Estimate (PSE) by
commodity in Table 3 is also calculated
only for commodities produced in the country within the common set of
commodities. All data sets in the calculation of PSE by commodity come from
Tables 1 and 2 where definitions are included.

Definitions of the
indicators, criteria of classification of programmes
included, and methods of calculation can be seen in OECD, Methodology for
the measurement of support and use in policy evaluation [http://www.oecd.org/agr/policy].

Fiscal
year: Calendar year.

Crop
years: Each crop year covers two crop seasons. For
example crop seasons Autumn-Winter (AW) 1993/94 and Spring-Summer (SS) 1994/94,
of the crop year 1993/94, are attributed to year 1994 for PSE calculation
purposes.

Table 2. Market price support and
consumer support estimate by commodity

Wheat: Weighted average of administered prices of wheat (preciopiso de bodega) in the AW
and SS seasons [1]. Since 2001 there are not administered prices and price payed to producer is used (Precios
de granos y oleaginosaspagados al productor) is used [4].

Maize: Average of administered prices of white maize in AW and SS
seasons [6]. For 1990-1995 yellow maize price was also considered in the
weighted average (5% of total). Since 2001 there are not administered prices and
price payed to producer is used (Precios
de granos y oleaginosaspagados al productor) is used
[4].

Barley: Average of administered prices for AW and SS seasons [7].
Since 2001 there are not administered prices and price payed
to producer is used (Precios de granos
y oleaginosaspagados al productor) is used [4].

Sorghum: Average of administered prices for AW and SS seasons [7].
Since 2001 there are not administered prices and price payed
to producer is used (Precios de granos
y oleaginosaspagados al productor) is used [4].

Rice: Average of administered prices for paddy rice for AW and SS
seasons [7]. Since 2001 there are not administered prices and price payed to producer is used (Precios
de granos y oleaginosaspagados al productor) is used
[4].

Soyabean: Average of
administered prices for paddy rice for AW and SS seasons [7]. Since 2001 there
are not administered prices and price payed to
producer is used (Precios de granos
y oleaginosaspagados al productor) is used [4].

Raw
sugar: Until 1994,
annual average of monthly wholesale price of raw sugar (mascabado)
from Camara Nacional de IndustriasAzucareras; since then "precio
de referencia de azucar
base standard KABE from COAZUCAR with a correction coefficient from an average
of overlapping years * 0.926.

Wheat: Simple average of the US hard red
winter (HRW) No 2 [11] and the US soft red
winter (SRW) No 2 [12]. A transportation cost to Gulf of 11 US$/t. is added.

Maize: US export
price of yellow maize [11]. Weighted average of yellow and
white maize with a 95% weight to white maize, and the white maize price being
calculated by adding a 20% quality premium to the US
export price of yellow maize. A transportation cost to Gulf of 11
US$/t. is added.

Sorghum: US export price [11]. A transportation cost to Gulf of 11
US$/t. is added.

Rice: Until 1993,
Gulf medium grain price [13]; since 1994, Fob Houston long grain [11],
multiplied by a factor correction of 0.89 from an average of overlapping years,
and converted from milled rice price into paddy equivalent price by multiplying
by a technical coefficient of 0.66 [7] until 1993, and 0.5 from 1994 onwards. A
transportation cost to Gulf of 11 US$/t. is added.

Soyabean: US export
price Gulf [11]. A transportation cost to Gulf of 11 US$/t. is added.